Gavin Friday Quotes
Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.
Gavin Friday
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
Aaron Neville
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
Taron Egerton
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
Beau Mirchoff
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Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Iain Duncan Smith
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
Zaha Hadid
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I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
Ira Levin
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
Salman Rushdie
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
Damon Galgut
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In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.
Patrick Ness
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I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
Louise Erdrich
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
Jonathan Coe
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
Zadie Smith
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They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
Ike Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
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In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
Johann Lamont
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Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.
Gavin Friday
